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Dan Kubb
33699 Grewall Crescent
Mission, BC, V2V 7B7
Canada
+1 (604) 855-2194
Summary
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* Proven record of delivering well-tested software that exceeds
expectations.
* Very comfortable communicating with all levels of an organization and
explain technical concepts using straightforward language.
* Understands business and marketing, and has an especially deep
understanding of internet marketing.
* Enjoys teaching and mentoring and has directly managed teams of up to
15 developers.
* Strong technical background with over 20 years of experience
developing web applications.
* Former Lead for DataMapper ORM open-source project, which was a direct
competitor to ActiveRecord (a part of Ruby on Rails), is used by hundreds
of companies and has dozens of contributors.
Skills
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Languages -- Ruby, Haskell, SQL, Perl
Databases -- MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
Operating Systems -- Linux, OS X, Windows
Experience
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Software Developer
Bloomcrush
April 2011 - Present (9 years)
* Led a team of developers on various Ruby on Rails projects for clients.
* Developed ecommerce application based on Spree, and later rewritten to
handle 50M+ in yearly sales.
* Worked as part of a team to build a CI/CD system based on BuildKite that
performs over one work-hour of verification in parallel tasks, bringing
the total build time down to under 2 minutes.
Freelance Software Developer
May 2001 — Present (19 years)
* Worked with dozens of customers, automating and streamlining their
internal business and marketing processes.
* Developed custom ecommerce applications handling over 1M in yearly
sales.
* Integrated back-end systems that were not designed to work together to
allow simpler administration and increase sales.
* In one case, developed a system to help manage fulfillment of
physically shipped products. Reduced time to manage daily orders
from 4 hours to 10 minutes a day, and eliminated many costly mistakes
caused by the formerly manual process.
Software Developer
VideoJuicer
October 2010 - May 2011 (8 months)
* Worked on a team that managed the pokerstars.tv video hosting website. This
included video processing, a CMS and content distribution that handled
extremely high volumes of traffic.
* Converted existing pokerstars.tv site to be mobile friendly.
Software Developer
Lypp
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
* Integrated Voice Conferencing system with Ruby on Rails application.
System allows conferences to be scheduled with attendees, and the
system would dial out to all attendees and pull them into a conference
call.
* Mentored small team of developers and designers.
* Worked directly with designers and project managers to design easy to
use interface to allow call scheduling.
* Developed REST API to allow other applications to integrate conference
calling systems. API is compatible with ActiveResource allowing Ruby
on Rails applications to easily integrate with the service.
Lead Software Developer
The Internet Marketing Center
March 1999 — June 2004 (5 years 4 months)
* Developed dozens of in-house applications to streamline business and
increase sales.
* Built ecommerce platform that formed the basis for all company systems
and continuously refined while the company grew from 4 employees to
over 50, and 10M a year in revenue online.
* Mentored and managed software developers on multiple simultaneous
projects. Team size would fluctuate depending on the project, but I
have managed up to 15 developers at one time.
* Developed affiliate program used by 90,000+ affiliates, one of the
largest on the internet after Amazon.com.
* Repackaged in-house affiliate program as commercial system called
AssocTRAC. Sold several thousand copies for well over 1M in revenue
for about 4 man-months of work.
* Rebuilt eBookPro authentication system to handle extremely large
volumes of traffic. Stability was a primary concern, so it was built
using Test Driven Development and refactored into clean single-purpose
components.